Konchog Chidu, Vivid Awareness
and Losar 2019
To the extended sangha and all those who have been so kind to establish and blossom Vajra Vidya Retreat Center, Khenpo Lobzang warmly invites you to a special retreat !
Please join us for our 3rd Annual Konchog Chidu and Losar Celebration:
Friday, February 1st-Tuesday, February 5th.
In this five day program Khenpo Lobzang will again combine the Pointing Out, Teaching and Practice of the Vivid Awareness Pith Instructions of Khenpo Gangshar with the “Essence of All the Buddhas: Konchog Chidu Sadhana”.
On Sunday afternoon, a year end Mahakala Sadhana and Tsok will be offered. On Tuesday morning at 9 am a Losar Celebration followed by tea and snacks will take place in the Vajra Vidya Shrine Room.
Program begins 9 am on Friday, February 1st.
For more info. please see Special Events page at: https://vajravidya.com/special-events-2/
and also the Events Registration Form page: https://vajravidya.com/event-registration-form/
Cost for the entire program: $175
May the Supreme Jewel Bodhichitta arise where it has not arisen…..And where it has arisen,
May it not diminish but increase further and further…..
Thrangu Rinpoche will conduct a Consecration Ceremony and Three Empowerments this summer in Crestone, Colorado !!
 Thrangu Rinpoche has kindly accepted the invitation of Khenpo Lobzang to conduct Three Empowerment Transmissions at Vajra Vidya Retreat Center plus a Groundbreaking Consecration Ceremony for beginning construction on the final wing of the Retreat Center.Each of the Empowerments is occuring on an especially auspicious day. All are welcome to attend these programs. No prerequisites are required. If you have received these Empowerments in the past,please join us to renew, refresh and be in the blessing field with our beloved teacher. SPECIAL NOTE: On Friday July 27th, following the Medicine Buddha Empowerment, Thrangu Rinpoche will offer the Refuge Ceremony and give Bodhisattva Vows to those who wish to receive them. On Saturday August 4th, following the Mahakala Empowerment, Thrangu Rinpoche will give the lung (oral transmission) for Ngondro. |
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Empowerment is unique to the path of Vajrayana. Although conferred by a Master realized in the practice, Empowerment is not something that comes from outside.
We recognize, become aware of, learn to call forth and live within the luminous clarity, openness and sensitivity of the Natural State.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama says:
- “When an empowerment is conferred on you, it is the nature of your mind—the Buddha Nature—that provides a basis upon which the empowerment can ripen you. Through the empowerment, you are empowered into the essence of the buddhas of the five families. In particular, you are ‘ripened’ within that particular family through which it is your personal predisposition to attain buddhahood.”
**Photo by Marvin Ross
Registration for these events will begin May 1,2018 ONLINE.
All LODGING at VVRC is currently being held for Rinpoche and his support personnel during his stay. Please GOOGLE AirBnB and Crestone Lodging to secure your own housing for these events.
The Empowerment dates are:
Sunday July 22-Konchog Chidu; Friday July 27- Medicine Buddha; Saturday August 4 – Mahakala
10 AM: Each morning of the the Empowerments at 10 am, Khenpo Lobzang will give an explanatory talk on the history, meaning, intention and benefits of the practice.
3 PM: At 3 pm Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche will give the Oral/Reading Transmission of the Sadhana Practice (“lung or loong”) asssociated with the Empowerment. This opens the gate to full engagement with the Lineage of the practice. He will then conduct the formal Empowerment.
Sunday August 5: 9 AM: Groundbreaking Consecration Ceremony for completion of the South Wing of the Retreat Center.
Sunday July 22
Konchog Chidu Empowerment on Guru Rinpoche’s Birthday
10 AM-12 PM Introductory Teaching by Khenpo Lobzang
3-5 PM Empowerment with Thrangu Rinpoche
Friday July 27
Medicine Buddha Empowerment on the Lunar Eclipse
10 AM -12 PM Introductory Teaching by Khenpo Lobzang
3-5 PM Empowerment with Thrangu Rinpoche (followed by Refuge Ceremony and Bodhisattva Vows)
Saturday August 4
Mahakala Empowerment
10 AM-12PM Introductory Teaching by Khenpo Lobzang
3-PM Empowerment with Thrangu Rinpoche followed by transmission of the lung for Ngondro
Sunday August 5 at 9 AM
Thrangu Rinpoche will conduct a Consecration Ceremony for the ground, land and building of the final wing of the Retreat Center.
“The real yidam is the true nature of the mind, the buddha within. The plenitude of the buddha within can unfold and manifest through the compassionate blessing of what is called “sign yidam.” By understanding the relationship between the outer and inner yidam and by practicing according to the precious instructions, a student can realize the inner nature of the own mind and manifest his or her hidden treasure that is always and already slumbering within. Meditation practice is more than wishful thinking.” Thrangu Rinpoche
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Amitabha Phowa Empowerment and Retreat
November 10-16th, 2017
led by Retreat Master: Khenpo Jigme
Scholarship available for 5 Nights free stay at VVRC
If you are interested in having your name tossed in the Hat, please email Himani by Sept. 29th. The drawing will be at noon on Sept. 30th. The gifted one will be responsible for their own travel to VVRC. Requested dates are per availability.
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If you attended the Chakrasamvara Empowerment with Thrangu Rinpoche and have not yet received the Sadhana, please contact Himani. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Recent Highlights: On August 12th Khenpos Lobzang and Jigme officiated the first wedding ceremony in the Shrine Room. Jake March and Katey Sliker, long term practitioners from Boulder, took their vows in a traditional Marriage Empowerment Ceremony with 40 family members and friends sharing their intent in lives dedicated to love. The Khenpos and staff spent the entire day prepaing the setting and atmosphere. Many rose petals were thrown to increase the auspiciousness of this sacred union. |
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The Concise Mind Instructions Called Naturally Liberating Whatever You Meet
This is the 60th Anniversary of Khenpo Gangshar’s momentous teaching on the pith instructions for practicing Mahamudra and Dzogchen.
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| Khenpo Gangshar, a great scholar who became a mahasiddha, had a vision of the impending invasion of Tibet while he was teaching theUttaratantra at Trungpa Rinpoche’s Surmong monastery. He wanted all his students to receive these essential instructions for directly looking at one’s mind.In August, 1957 he gave these instructions to his students which included Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Thrangu Rinpoche, and Khenpo Karthar. Afterwards Thrangu Rinpoche invited Khenpo Gangshar to his monastery where Khenpo Gangshar wrote these teachings down.
Thrangu Rinpoche has said, “These instructions are short but carry exceptional blessings and power. Not only are they beneficial, they are also easy to practice. They are concise, yet profound and can truly help us.” He has also said that these teachings were invaluable help to him during the most difficult time of his life and that they most likely saved his life. |
| To practice these teachings, traditionally, it is important to receive the reading and oral transmission from a person who has practiced these teachings and received them from a lineage.We have a great opportunity to create this karmic connection with these teachings from Thrangu Rinpoche who received the transmission directly from Khenpo Gangshar. |
| The Sixteenth Gyalwang Karmapa said that the Mahamudra teachings were the most appropriate teachings for practitioners in the West. In the past 40 years Thrangu Rinpoche has been teaching Buddhism and establishing Buddhist centers in dozens of countries. He has published 44 books in English on Buddhism including 12 on Mahamudra practice, 1 on the union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen practice, and Vivid Awareness which is a compilation of Thrangu Rinpoche’s teachings on Khenpo Gangshar. |
VVRC Announces: Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche will present two weekend programs in Crestone
July 7-9 and July15-16, 2017: Khenpo Gangshar’s “Naturally Liberating Whatever You Meet”
Friday July 7th ( 2-5 pm ) and Saturday July 8th and Sunday July 9t ( 9am-5pm ) $220 Program Fee
Chakrasamvara Empowerment: Saturday July 15th and Sunday July 16th ( 9am-5pm ) $150 Program Fee
KHENPO GANGSHAR TEACHING: Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche will be teaching on the exceptional Mind Instructions of Khenpo Gangshar called “Naturally Liberating Whatever You Meet”. Khenpo Gangshar presented these teachings in 1957 to Thrangu Rinpoche, Trungpa Rinpoche and Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche at Thrangu Monastery in Tibet.
“In this modern society when everyone has to work and every individual has their own particular difficulties, the most outstanding and extraordinary oral instructions are those of Mahamudra. In particular for all of us who live in the West, these extraordinary oral instructions have great benefit, are extremely easy to practice, and make it easy to attain the ultimate result.”
— Thrangu Rinpoche
CHAKRASAMVARA: The purpose of the Chakrasamvara Empowerment is to provide the conditions to link the practitioners’ mind with the state of Enlightenment. Buddha Shakyamuni manifests as Chakrasamvara to remove obstacles, cut through the causes of ignorance and protect practice for the benefit of all beings. The Yidam is the Wheel of Supreme Bliss in Union with Emptiness: Self-Cognizing Wisdom in the Endless Display of Compassion.
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